This Type of Thing in Florida is Getting so Old

Here we go again.  A handicapped girl is bullied on a school bus.  The father goes through proper channels, complains to the school district, the school district employees (read government representatives) do not do anything.  The father takes matters into his own hands and although he had no physical contact with anyone – he was arrested.  See the story here:  http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39232388/ns/today-parenting/

Is it me or am I the only one that sees the “open season” attitude towards the disabled in the Florida education system?  This is a trend, no, it is a pandemic.  People need to be fired – school staff, school board members, the state superintendent, and the Governor who appointed him.  This trend is so disturbing, a physically and mentally challenged student shot in the face by University of Florida police, a State University professor in Miami who fatally over prescribes anti depressants to a pre teen autistic boy without punishment, three special ed teachers in a Florida school district charged with abusing handicapped students, and now this.  This is not a coincidence, this is an attitude problem in government.  Forget impeachment, elected officials who allow this to go on should be incarcerated.

It is horrible that a man busted onto a school bus like that.  It is worse that he felt he had to because the school officials failed to act.  The real crime is that a father is arrested for defending his disabled child’s honor, and everyone else gets a pass, from the buss driver to the matron, the do nothing school officials.

Of course I have a few obligatory questions:

Why were the police called on the father, but not on the bullies?

Why was this video released and not the one of the bullies? 

Why didn’t any of the adults speak English?

Why isn’t any one speaking up?

This father was wrong in his behavior, but, it seems he only acted when the school district did nothing.  In my book that makes him a hero.

©2010 Dan Homan